Generation Citizen Lesson 1: The Advocacy hourglass

Multiple Choice

What are we going to learn about today?

• Basketball

• The Advocacy Hourglass

• The Moon

• I don't know

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What does advocacy mean?

• Eating advocados

• Active work against a cause

• Active support for a cause

Poll

Does everyone understand what advocacy means?

• Yes

• No

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Which one of these pictures is an hourglass?

Draw

Everyone, please draw an hourglass

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What is the advocacy hourglass?

• Something to help you see better

• A diagram that puts the steps of effective advocacy in order from top to bottom.

• A way to tell time

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Why is the diagram called an "hourglass?"

• Because it helps tell time

• Because of its shape

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Why are the steps in the middle of the hourglass small?

• They are more focused and specific

• They are "big picture" or generalized

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What shape is an hourglass?

• It's small in the middle and big on the ends

• It's small on the ends and big in the middle

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Why are the steps at the ends of the hourglass big?

• They are more focused and specific

• They are "big picture" or generalized

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What is the third step on the advocacy hourglass?

• Root cause

• Community issues

• Tactics

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Is "Root Cuase" a focused step or a big picture step?

• Focused

• Big picture

Open Ended

So, why is this diagram called the advocacy hourglass?

Sentence stem:

It is called the advocacy hourglass because__________

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What question does the Community Issues step help us answer?

• What is the problem that concerns us?

• How can we solve this problem?

• Who can help us solve this problem?

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What question does the Focus Issue step help us answer?

• Why does this problem exist?

• What specific problem are we going to try and solve?

• How will we solve this problem?

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What question does the Root Cause step help us answer?

• Why does this problem exist?

• Who can help us solve this problem?

• What specific problem are we going to try and solve?

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What question does the Goal step help us answer?

• Why does this problem exist?

• What specific problem are we going to try and solve?

• How will we solve this problem?

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What question does the Targets step help us answer?

• Why does this problem exist?

• Who can help us solve this problem?

• What specific problem are we going to try and solve?

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What question does the Tactics step help us answer?

• How are we going to convince our targets to help us?

• Who can help us solve this problem?

• What specific problem are we going to try and solve?

Open Ended

So what is the Advocacy Hourglass for?

Sentence Stems:

The advocacy hourglass helps us _______

The advocacy hour glass is for ________

Poll

Do you understand what the Advocacy Hourglass is for?

• Yes

• No

• Sort of